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21. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... homes, which substantially increased the need for home usage of potable water. The national quarantine gravely affected the lack of water in various populous areas of the country, leading to desperate ...; Created on 01 December 2020
22. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... community health study conducted in Carrizalillo between 2012 and 2014 documented a marked increase in health problems among the local population believed to be the result of constant exposure to arsenic ...; Created on 28 November 2020
23. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... Investor State Dispute Settlement system (ISDS). The report findings demonstrate that: Instead of respecting legitimate community opposition to its gold-mining project, KCA increased its efforts ...; Created on 21 October 2020
24. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... of cases of Covid-19 has increased. "Among the unionized workers and those of the subcontractors in less than 15 days, there are 150 positive for Covid-19. In these small towns, some of these workers live ...; Created on 09 August 2020
25. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis. "The COVID-19 pandemic ...; Created on 31 July 2020
26. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... physical and psychological violence. With increased social control of entire populations during the pandemic, the risks are even greater as people’s movements are contained and as companies and governments ...; Created on 23 July 2020
27. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... plantations are reported. Jorge Santos, from the Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala (UDEFEGUA), points out that during states of Siege they have detected an increase in the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
28. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... of the Covid-19 pandemic, the mining company instead intensified mining activities. CGN-PRONICO forced workers to complete strenuous 24-hour days that increase the risk of contagion. As a consequence of ...; Created on 12 June 2020
29. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... permits to developers or structural projects that can increase the vulnerability of the Salvadoran territory, such as the real estate development project Valle El Ángel,” González expressed. Likewise, ...; Created on 06 June 2020
30. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the biologist explained. The contamination of the Ostúa river could increase, since the mining company, for a decade, has extracted 297,840 barrels of geothermal water that is dumped on the Ostúa river. ...; Created on 21 April 2020
31. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... impact of water consumption based on the mining activities and their rate of extraction and timing (i.e. which activities or events possibly correspond to an increase or decrease in consumption) by carrying ...; Created on 08 March 2020
32. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... the environmental and social impacts generated by the industry. "In the last three years, there has been an increase in the criminalization of environmental defenders and organizations in the region. ...; Created on 26 December 2019
33. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... Dominguez hopes that winning the Letelier-Moffitt Award will increase the profile of their struggle and it will inspire international human rights organizations to keep their attention on the Lower Aguan situation, ...; Created on 24 October 2019
34. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... near the river stream increase. Rodolfo Calles, a member of the roundtable against mining, pointed out that the new government must begin the processes of environmental remediation of the damages caused ...; Created on 18 September 2019
35. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... shows that the gold and silver are contained in arsenopyrite rock, which contains high levels of arsenic. Levels of arsenic in the water increased considerably during the time the mine was in operation." ...; Created on 03 May 2019
36. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... conflict - is located, the number of mining concessions increased dramatically in a decade: from zero concessions in the year 2000 to 59 in the year 2011. Indigenous and peasant communities are disproportionately ...; Created on 28 August 2018
37. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... scarce local water sources, of small scale farmers who lose their harvests with increased frequency to prolonged drought and of women and children who spend much of their day in search of this vital liquid. ...; Created on 27 August 2018
38. Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatizing water: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... for the exercising of all other rights." El Salvador's legislature is starting debate on a national water law. The legislation is proving controversial because some lawmakers favor increased private-sector ...; Created on 24 June 2018
39. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... be doing this unless they were paid.” The community continued resisting the mine, and the threats increased. Three activists were murdered, including a pregnant woman. One activist was brutally tortured. ...; Created on 07 May 2018
40. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... ruled it should pay, and it publicly denounced El Salvador’s refusal to let it mine. Further, OceanaGold increased its propaganda campaign about its “responsible mining,” while continuing to try to woo ...; Created on 26 June 2017

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